Calum Scott

Calum Scott 2018

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Only human   DE 34 March 16, 2018 (3 weeks)   AT 41 03/23/2018 (1 week)   CH 13 03/18/2018 (12 weeks)   UK 4th  silver March 22, 2018 (8 weeks)   US 66 March 24, 2018 (6 weeks)

Singles

Dancing on My Own   DE 61  platinum 01/06/2017 (11 weeks)   AT 32 12/02/2016 (10 weeks)   CH 81 01/08/2017 (6 weeks)   UK 2  × 3 Triple platinum 04/28/2016 (48 weeks)   US 93  × 2 Double platinum 02/11/2017 (2 weeks) Rhythm Inside   UK 90 December 8, 2016 (1 week) You are the reason   CH 20th 02/18/2018 (49 weeks)   UK 43  platinum 02/15/2018 (14 weeks) Love on Myself ( Felix Jaehn feat. Calum Scott)   DE 58 08/16/2019 (10 weeks)

Calum Scott (born October 12, 1988 in Kingston upon Hull ) is a British pop singer . He became known in 2015 as a participant in Britain's Got Talent .

Career

Calum Scott grew up in his native Hull in the north east of England. He gained his first musical experience as a drummer. It was only his sister, who was an active singer herself, that made him give it a serious try as a singer. She enrolled him in the local newspaper Hull Daily Mail's star search competition in 2013 . Scott won the talent contest and tried only as a singer in a pop band that is in line with Maroon 5 as Maroon 4 designated. He was also half of the duo Experiment , which released the single Girl (You're Beautiful) in 2014 .

A year later he and his sister applied for the casting show Britain’s Got Talent . While Jade Scott was eliminated from the auditions, Calum was directly selected by juror Simon Cowell with his interpretation of Dancing on My Own , a 2010 hit for the Swedish singer Robyn . He then clearly won the semifinals, but was only sixth in the final after a weaker performance.

After the competition, the Englishman decided to quit his job as a town hall clerk and take his singing career seriously. In the spring of 2016 he released the song Dancing on My Own as a single and video. To do this, the song was used in the seventh season of the TV series Vampire Diaries . Initially, the single was barely in the top 40, but in August it climbed to the top 10 and topped out at number 2. It went platinum for 600,000 units sold in the UK. The song was then released internationally, it reached the top 5 in Australia and Sweden, among others, and at the end of the year also entered the charts in German-speaking countries. The video for the song reached over 353 million views on YouTube , and the recording from the casting show over 227 million views.

On June 28, 2019 Scott released the single Love on Myself together with the German DJ Felix Jaehn . In terms of content, the piece takes up the themes of “self-acceptance” and “self-love”. After the piece initially missed the charts, the piece finally made it into the official German single charts after two months and became Scott's second chart hit after Dancing on My Own in Germany.

Discography

Studio albums

• 2018: Only Human

Singles

• 2015: Britain's Got Talent
  • Dancing on My Own (Original: Robyn )
  • We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off (Original: Jermaine Stewart )
  • Diamonds (Original: Rihanna )
• 2015: Yours
• 2015: When We Were Young
• 2016: Dancing on My Own
• 2016: Transformar (Change) (with Ivete Sangalo )
• 2016: Rhythm Inside
• 2017: You Are the Reason (US:platinum)
• 2018: You Are the Reason (with Leona Lewis )
• 2018: What I Miss Most
• 2018: No Matter What
• 2019: Undo (with Naughty Boy & Shenseea)

Guest Posts

• 2018: Give Me Love ( Don Diablo feat. Calum Scott)
• 2019: Love on Myself ( Felix Jaehn feat. Calum Scott)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2020: for the album Only Human  Belgium 2017: for the single Dancing on My Own  Brazil 2018: for the single You Are The Reason  Denmark 2019: for the album Only Human  France 2019: for the single Dancing on My Own  Italy 2019: for the single You Are The Reason  Mexico 2018: for the single Dancing on My Own  Netherlands 2016: for the single Dancing on My Own  Norway 2018: for the album Only Human  Sweden 2018: for the single You Are The Reason Platinum record  Denmark 2020: for the single You Are The Reason  Italy 2019: for the single Dancing on My Own  New Zealand 2016: for the single Dancing on My Own

2 × platinum record  Denmark 2019: for the single Dancing on My Own  Canada 2019: for the single You Are The Reason  Norway 2018: for the single Dancing on My Own 3 × platinum record  Sweden 2017: for the single Dancing on My Own 4 × platinum record  Australia 2019: for the single You Are The Reason 9 × platinum record  Australia 2020: for the single Dancing on My Own

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	gold1	13 × platinum13	945,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Brazil (PMB)	-	gold1	-	20,000	pro-musicabr.org.br
Denmark (IFPI)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	280,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	-	platinum1	400,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	100,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	gold1	platinum1	75,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	-	2 × platinum2	160,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	gold1	-	30,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	-	platinum1	30,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	20,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	gold1	2 × platinum2	35,000	ifpi.no
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	3 × platinum3	140,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United States (RIAA)	-	-	3 × platinum3	3,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	4 × platinum4th	2,460,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	10 × gold10	33 × platinum33

Web links

Commons : Calum Scott  - Collection of Images

• Official Homepage (English)
• Calum Scott on Britain's Got Talent Wiki (English)
• Calum Scott at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ Former Britain's Got Talent star Calum Scott: “When Simon Cowell didn't sign me, I thought it was over,” Naomi Gordon, Digital Spy, April 27, 2016
3. ↑ Felix Jaehn feat. Calum Scott - Love on Myself. discogs.com, accessed August 10, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Cara Wolff: Felix Jaehn feat. Calum Scott - “Love on Myself”. 1.wdr.de, July 19, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Felix Jaehn and Calum Scott celebrate self-love with their new single “Love On Myself”. universal-music.de, July 4, 2019, accessed on August 21, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Felix Jaehn feat. Calum Scott - Love On Myself (Single). officialcharts.de, accessed on August 20, 2019 .